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Article #374Re: desktop publishing vs. the old fashioned way
From: Stefek Zaba
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:36
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:36
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bernhold@qtp.ufl.edu (David E. Bernholdt) wrote: > Do publishing houses (the kind that generate paper output :-) use SGML > yet? Obviously they're going to use some kind of markup language when > they put the document into production. Is it likely to be SGML? Will > it ever be? Can you ask a publisher for their book/journal/whatever > DTD in order to write your document using it? A single exemplar: the Oxford University Press have used SGML extensively in the production of the New Oxford English Dictionary. Because the markup is indeed heavily structural, the fancy query interface which ships with the CD-ROM version (PeeCee and Mac) can do better than simple wordsearch: "18th century uses of 'think' as a noun" and the like. (Counter-example: non-technical academic books done by OUP do not use SGML. Hell, you expected consistency!?) Cheers, Stefek
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From: sjmz@otter.hpl.hp.com (Stefek Zaba) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:36:38 GMT Subject: Re: desktop publishing vs. the old fashioned way Message-ID: <49400001@otter.hpl.hp.com> Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!kithrup!hoptoad!pacbell.com!iggy.GW.Vitalink.COM!cs.widener.edu!eff!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!scd.hp.com!hplextra!otter.hpl.hp.com!otter!sjmz Newsgroups: comp.text.sgml References: <37239@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> Lines: 18